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FlexN Manchester at Old Granada Studios

Debra Craine

July 14 2015, 1:01am, The Times

Anger is the driving force of this Manchester International Festival dance offering, and it’s certainly no surprise. Given the parlous state of race relations in America, and the litany of murdered young black men, not to mention the recent horror of Charleston, there’s plenty of anger to go around.

Yet FlexN Manchester, which brings together street dancers from Brooklyn and the northwest of England, goes one step further. It embraces the idea of a community — black or white — coming together in the face of adversity.

The show began at the Park Avenue Armory in New York, developed with the help of stage director Peter Sellars, but it has been redone for Manchester. Under the direction of choreographer Reggie “Regg Roc” Gray, with collective…